Monday, 28 July 2014

It's almost my 49th Birthday, wow where has the time gone, I still feel like I'm in my 30's! so I got to thinking, where do I want to be this time next year?. I always considered myself to be a 'live for the moment' kind of girl, enjoying my life and living with no regrets, if I didn't like something I changed it and if I couldn't change it then I accepted it and moved on. Life is too short and precious for bitterness or resentment.

If I wanted to do something I just got on and did it, but during my 40's my attitude seems to have shifted to 'ah manyana' tomorrow is soon enough for me. Maybe it's because I'm getting older, more tired or a just a bit jaded, but whatever it is, it's been holding me back, making me unsure about things and denting my confidence so I've been dithering rather than just getting on with it. I feel like I need to kick start myself back into being the confident person I was, getting out there and enjoying life, trying new things and just being me!

Okay so how am I going to kick start myself, chatting away to my daughter on a lovely long walk yesterday I pondered what I needed to do to change things, knowing it had to be something different, and before I could think too much about it, or find an excuse not to do it, I said to her "right I'm going to think of 50 things to do before I get to 50". Her response was "go for it Mam"! - okay now it's too late to take that back! so now I've just got to get on with it.

Last night I sat down, pondered, dithered, and blunted my pencil creating a list of 50 things I wanted to do in the next 12 months so I when I reach the big 50 I've got there, living for the moment, with no what if''s, no but's and definitely no regrets.

My list is a mixture of long and short term goals, some need planning and some are just get on and do it! some are just everyday things, some are exciting and some just plain scary, but this time next year I will be doing both number 1 and number 50 on my list at the same time, celebrating my 50th Birthday in Cornwall having completed all the other's in between.

You'll notice that number 4 on my list is to keep a blog of how I'm doing over the next year, soI'll be posting updates on how I get on regularly.

My list:-

1. Visit Cornwall

2. Paint something big at least A3

3. Lose 25lbs

4. Keep up my blog with progress on my
list

5. Reach 700 followers on Twitter

6. Reach 500 likers on Facebook

7. Reach 300 sales on Folksy

8. Try a new art style

9. Have my hair cut short

10. Learn a new craft

11. Learn to use my camera properly

12. De-junk my wardrobe

13. Make our New York scrapbook

14. Make our Wedding Album

15. Make our Egypt scrapbook

16. Learn to ride a bike

17. Eat lobster

18. Go to an opera

19. Go to a ballet

20. Go to an art workshop

21. Get a manicure

22. Write a short story

23. Enter a competition

24. Sort out our photos

25. Walk up the Garth

26. Walk out to the
barrage in Cardiff bay

27. Walk up Pen y Fan

28. Raise £200 for cancer research

29. Do something scary

30. Design our garden

31. Go to an outdoor event

32. Go for a nostalgia walk around my
childhood village

33. Wear earrings every day for a week

34. Get new glasses

35. Walk 150 miles in a year - at least 3
miles a week excluding daily commute

36. Do something just for fun

37. Sing along in the car at the top of
my voice whilst sat in a traffic jam

38. Take one positive out of every day
for a week

39. Spend a day in my pj's watching
Shirley Valentine, The King and I, Mama Mia & Singing in the Rain

40. Eat a new food

41. Try green tea

42. Paint Plein Air

43. Do all my Christmas shopping over 1 week in November

44. Write my Christmas cards and post
them a week before the last posting date